[Bug binutils/12658] ld: potential infinite loop and memory leaks when link many object files

[dongsheng.song at gmail dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12658

--- Comment #13 from Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song at gmail dot com> 
2011-04-14 02:04:40 UTC ---
Here is the stack trace (After ld running 8 minutes, use 1.4GB memory):

# gdb /home/dongsheng/gcc-4.6-windows-linux/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld 28412
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Reading symbols from
/home/dongsheng/gcc-4.6-windows-linux/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld...done.
Attaching to program:
/home/dongsheng/gcc-4.6-windows-linux/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld, process 28412
Reading symbols from /lib64/libdl.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/libdl.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib64/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
_bfd_pei_swap_sym_in (abfd=0x4c5eda20, ext1=0x5474af34, in1=0x7fff02619200) at
peigen.c:115
115         in->n_type = H_GET_16 (abfd, ext->e_type);
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install
glibc-2.12-1.7.el6_0.5.x86_64
(gdb) bt
#0  _bfd_pei_swap_sym_in (abfd=0x4c5eda20, ext1=0x5474af34, in1=0x7fff02619200)
at peigen.c:115
#1  0x0000000000446106 in handle_COMDAT (abfd=0x4c5eda20, hdr=<value optimized
out>, name=<value optimized out>,
    section=0x55422a28, flags_ptr=0x7fff02619ebc) at
/home/dongsheng/vcs/git/binutils/bfd/coffcode.h:897
#2  styp_to_sec_flags (abfd=0x4c5eda20, hdr=<value optimized out>, name=<value
optimized out>, section=0x55422a28,
    flags_ptr=0x7fff02619ebc) at
/home/dongsheng/vcs/git/binutils/bfd/coffcode.h:1253
#3  0x0000000000431c0a in make_a_section_from_file (abfd=0x4c5eda20) at
/home/dongsheng/vcs/git/binutils/bfd/coffgen.c:132
#4  coff_real_object_p (abfd=0x4c5eda20) at
/home/dongsheng/vcs/git/binutils/bfd/coffgen.c:222
#5  coff_object_p (abfd=0x4c5eda20) at
/home/dongsheng/vcs/git/binutils/bfd/coffgen.c:301
#6  0x00000000004320ce in bfd_check_format_matches (abfd=0x4c5eda20,
format=<value optimized out>, matching=0x0)
    at /home/dongsheng/vcs/git/binutils/bfd/format.c:211
#7  0x000000000041b9df in ldfile_try_open_bfd (attempt=0x7fff0261c97b
"monodll_msw_notebook.o", entry=0x160ea90)
    at /home/dongsheng/vcs/git/binutils/ld/ldfile.c:178
#8  0x000000000041c10c in ldfile_open_file (entry=0x160ea90) at
/home/dongsheng/vcs/git/binutils/ld/ldfile.c:443
#9  0x0000000000410465 in load_symbols (entry=0x160ea90, place=0x7fff0261a040)
    at /home/dongsheng/vcs/git/binutils/ld/ldlang.c:2678
#10 0x0000000000410e52 in open_input_bfds (s=0x160ea90, force=0) at
/home/dongsheng/vcs/git/binutils/ld/ldlang.c:3239
#11 0x000000000041215a in lang_process () at
/home/dongsheng/vcs/git/binutils/ld/ldlang.c:6471
#12 0x00000000004168e6 in main (argc=536, argv=0x7fff0261a288) at
/home/dongsheng/vcs/git/binutils/ld/ldmain.c:461
(gdb) q
A debugging session is active.

        Inferior 1 [process 28412] will be detached.

Quit anyway? (y or n) y
Detaching from program:
/home/dongsheng/gcc-4.6-windows-linux/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld, process 28412

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